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Our generation know more than ever before about the importance of parenting, especially those first five years.

That was never a thing. We didn't understand about brain development and the importance of it.

But the structures to support us actually do what we want to do about that, haven't changed, haven't come into place yet.

So we're just in this pressure cooker. And I think me really understanding that perfect storm and the pressure cooker that I'm in

and our generation in has been a game changer for me because it gives me so much compassion.

I'm like, oh, I get it. That's why, like, it's not me. You talk about that. It's not a me

thing. It's a thing. It's me thing. It's a thing. Like,

it's a thing. It's a thing. And I think the more we know about ideal ways to parent,

ideal ways to respond and ideal ways to nurture confidence and self-esteem and all of these things,

we then set a bar that we need to do that all the time and that we should do that all the

time. I think we need to inject the humanness back into these conversations.

And that's what the book does.

It's really looking at the fantasy version of our motherhood that we have in our minds,

how it is like that, why it's like that, both through our upbringing and the culture

and just narratives that have been affirmed throughout our lives.

Perhaps people pleasing in motherhood, that's a heavy thing for some people because if we please

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